Depp is suing News Group Newspapers and journalist Dan Wootton for an article on The Sun's website that described him as a `wife beater.` Depp denies that he was ever violent toward Heard, to whom he was married from 2015 to 2017.
The tape, played for the first time in court Friday, is believed to have been taken from a reality TV show recording from 2006 or 2007. The recording was handed to Depp's team by an anonymous source overnight, and they believe it came from an unbroadcast segment of the show.
Sherborne said, `All we know so far are the circumstances in which it is filmed. It is right that it was filmed as part of, as we understand it, a television program, but the footage your lordship [the judge] sees was not footage to be broadcast. It is not scripted ... it is the rushes. There is nothing, in my submission, light-hearted at all. It is quite clearly stated two of those present know that Ms. Amber Heard had beaten up Ms. Whitney Heard.`
`She doesn't deny it, she simply says that she doesn't want to talk about it.`
The evidence in the trial ended Friday. Closing speeches will follow on Monday and Tuesday, with the judgment coming at some point after that.